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Tesoro Petroleum Corp. of San Antonio, TX, agreed to sell all ofits domestic exploration and production business to EEX Corp. ofHouston for $216 million.

The increase in prices is primarily attributable to increased demand for electric generation and storage injections.

Reliant Energy, formerly Houston Industries, has purchased theretail gas marketing assets of Commonwealth Energy Systemsubsidiary COM/Energy Marketing for an undisclosed sum. The assetsprimarily are made up of contracts with more than 2,000 energycustomers in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut, twooffices in Massachusetts and a 10-person marketing team.

In a new analysis of power demand growth, Colorado-basedResource Data International (RDI) projects slightly over 186,000 MWof primarily gas-fired electric generating capacity will have to beadded by 2010 nationwide to meet burgeoning demand and to replaceretiring nuclear and non-nuclear capacity. The cost approaches $90billion.

In a new analysis of power demand growth, Colorado-basedResource Data International (RDI) projects slightly over 186,000 MWof primarily gas-fired electric generating capacity will have to beadded by 2010 nationwide to meet burgeoning demand and to replaceretiring nuclear and non-nuclear capacity. The cost approaches$90-billion.

The Williams Companies reported first-quarter 1998 results werereduced primarily by costs related to its MAPCO acquisition,unfavorable conditions in some energy market sectors and continuedinvestment in the company’s communications business.